Car-sharing is not going away
About 50,000 Belgians made use of Drivy last year.
Have you heard about Drivy? If you have been observing the traffic in Brussels’ streets, you surely have noticed this name.
Drivy, a company which is active in 6 European countries, offers you the possibility to use more than 350 cars in Brussels whenever you want. Around the main Belgian urban areas, 1,400 cars can be used. While you can use a car when you like, Drivy also makes possible to rent out your car for a very limited time. The system is very easy, as both the users and the owners sign a contract via their smartphone.
And more than 60 vehicles are equipped with a Drivy Open system, which makes it possible to unlock the car without any key.
“Carsharing meets a need of the cities which are clogged because of traffic jam on the roads. We believe a shared car can liberate the city from 10 to 15 private cars,” Quentin Lestavel, Drivy director for France and Belgium, told Belga. He also points out the fact that Drivy offers solutions for both companies and individual users. “We think that our model, private and professional cars, allows a balance and a more flexible development than the companies which work only with dedicated fleet,” he added.
Drivy is however not the only company active in this sort of business. Since there’s a need, several stakeholders have entered the business over the past few years.
